I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but that is to be expected.
What baffles me is that it randomly drops a ton of UDP packages, fails to read/write disk and randomly experiences high load only to quiet down later. Basically it seems like it really sucks at i/o. Might there be a benefit to using FreeBSD in this scenario?